Northeast Illinois

[Steve IL USA]

Hi to everyone, I don't have any pictures of my mess yet, I'll try to get some tomorrow. What I have is a detached short 1 1/2 car with a ten foot wide screen room under the same roof. It's hard to describe and even harder to get anything done in, it's so disorganized. I need to get it straight with little to no money and using the materials I have or can get cheap.

 

[clarkjg33]

Welcome.. Sometimes getting by and repurposing what you have
Is the best I have found. Browse Craigslist also... Sometimes people
are getting rid of cabinets and materials left over at a reasonable price

Jeff

 

[Higgins]

Steve - Watch craigslist - and look for St. Charles, Geneva metal kitchen cabinets! They are a steal for what you can get them for!

Earlier this yr, I picked up an entire kitchen out of Winnetca, IL. They started at $1,200, and once they got down to $400 I called. Ended up paying $350 for 12 cabinets. There were enough cabinets to do two garages!

If you need informaation on STC cabinets, send me a PM, as there are more cabinets around!

- AL

 

[Steve IL USA]

Here's the outside, it needs to be cleaned up and some lights on the front. You can see the edge of the drive lines up with the middle of the door, it's really awkward to park anything in there. It's about 19 by 19 on the inside of the garage and about 10 by 19 on the screenroom side. The rear man door rotted away and it's plywood screwed up for the winter, we never used it much but I want to put a steel door there next spring. The screen frames are really old and there are no provisions for closing up for rain or snow, I would like to find some used storms on craigslist and reframe for them.

 

[Steve IL USA]

The mess inside, I need to get about half of this out of there. It's amazing what I see looking at the pictures instead of standing in the space, like that old shop-vac I use for sucking water out of clogged drains should be down in the basement. Some of the stuff got put out there during house fix-ups and just stayed there in the mess. The screen room is piled with stuff being stored also.